Re: new coreutils snapshot; are they useful?

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> might be useful to have some way to run the test suite in a different
> directory, so that it is easy to run once on NFS and once on local. In
> particular I remember that on Darwin this was important.

To build and run "make check" using various writable directories
on file systems of different types, do this:

  for d in $dir_list; do
    ( cd $d && $cu_srcdir/configure && make && make check )
  done